Help! I have a few questions bout eggs and I need them answered!

[561196]

Thank you everyone for your help. But doesn’t a bullseye always mean that’s an egg is fertile especially when multiple ones have the bullseye? Also does anyone have tips on how to keep eggs warm for several hours without a bulb??

 

[MGG]

Thank you everyone for your help. But doesn’t a bullseye always mean that’s an egg is fertile especially when multiple ones have the bullseye? Also does anyone have tips on how to keep eggs warm for several hours without a bulb??

What you are seeing in that egg is not a bullseye. If it really was a true bullseye you would see veining in that egg. If you want to incubate eggs you need an incubator or a broody hen. Nothing else will really work.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Some people swear by the bullseye. Some people have experienced what you have - it's impossible to really tell without a test incubation. You might be able to use a heat mat instead of the lamp, but usually no. Most people use an incubator. What temperature is it at egg level under your lamp right now? You have a thermometer, right?

 

[GreedySeedFeedy]

Yeah, I had no idea I couldn't see it when candling. I was removing the eggs and had ten infertile ones, i just figured that one would be too. I was carrying them out to the trash when I dropped them all because I tripped over the dog. They were all infertile except that one. I felt so bad.

Sometimes if your candling light is too bright, it will shine right through very fine veins or a tiny embryo! It can also be hard to see through spotted, thick shelled, or dark coloured eggs.

 

[MGG]

Sometimes if your candling light is too bright, it will shine right through very fine veins or a tiny embryo! It can also be hard to see through spotted, thick shelled, or dark coloured eggs.

Yeah, I think that's what it was. I was also going a little fast, as I had already gone through quite a few with nothing and I was excited to start my new eggs.

 

[GreedySeedFeedy]

Thank you everyone for your help. But doesn’t a bullseye always mean that’s an egg is fertile especially when multiple ones have the bullseye? Also does anyone have tips on how to keep eggs warm for several hours without a bulb??

In the photo you showed that's not a bullseye! Just a nucleus called a blastodisc. The bullseye, called a blastoderm, looks similar to that but is much more than a little white spot! It will be twice that size and look like a white ring AROUND a spot, and usually with some beginnings of veins. Not just a spot alone. That's why it's called a 'bullseye' (like an archery target) and not a 'white dot' Here is an example of the difference!

 

[GreedySeedFeedy]

Yeah, I think that's what it was. I was also going a little fast, as I had already gone through quite a few with nothing and I was excited to start my new eggs.

I know what you mean, I have to sit on my hands in order to avoid over-candling my quail's eggs! Nothing is more exciting to me than hatching eggs. I would do it for a living if I could!

 

[MGG]

I know what you mean, I have to sit on my hands in order to avoid over-candling my quail's eggs! Nothing is more exciting to me than hatching eggs. I would do it for a living if I could!

Me too! I want to get my incubator out SO bad. Just gotta wait until summer

 

[561196]

Some people swear by the bullseye. Some people have experienced what you have - it's impossible to really tell without a test incubation. You might be able to use a heat mat instead of the lamp, but usually no. Most people use an incubator. What temperature is it at egg level under your lamp right now? You have a thermometer, right?

My egg is at 98.5 right now, sometimes it’s goes higher though!